Tales of Life and Death

Summary

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

'The Stolen Body' by H. G. Wells
'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote
'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton
'When I Was Dead' by Vincent O'Sullivan
'A Vision of Judgement' by H. G. Wells
'This Is All' by Barry Pain
'A Dead Finger' by Sabine Baring-Gould
'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells
'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton
'The Downs' by Amyas Northcote
'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' by Elia. W. Peattie
'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
'The Cold Embrace' by M. E. Braddon
'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce
'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs
'Wailing Well' by M. R. James
'Will' by Vincent O'Sullivan
'The Striding Place' by Gertrude Atherton
'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda
'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie
'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker
'From the Loom of the Dead' by Elia W. Peattie
'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton
'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe